From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 23:49:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3660737B401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:47:23 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0L7n3u26136; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:49:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Carl Speare Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for FTP Sites Message-ID: <20010120234903.P10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net>; from carlds@attglobal.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0500, Carl Speare wrote: > With the advent of DSL and such, wouldn't it make sense to also have a > tar/gzip of the full releases? > > For example, it would be nice to be able to download freebsd-4.2.tar.gz > in one huge shot, instead of having to recurse through numerous > directories with wget or such in order to download the latest version. > > (Though I also do buy regular versions, and am a supporting member...) You can get it all in one lump, $ ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE.tar But not all ftp servers support this. You can also download a whole ISO image if you really want to waste some bandwidth. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message